kBob
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Second Amendment in the US Bill of rights.
Dr Fackler was very interested in protecting our right to keep and bear arms......now matter who's ballistics theories proved "more better"
He was interested in Ring Foil projectiles as he thought they had to potential to leave clearly defined permanent wound channels. One issue he ran into on the slug project was the patent on the design was then still active. About the only thing we did was think about it and take some short sections of copper tubing and drop them from three stories ( outside my office on the breeze way) to see if a straight tube might self stabilize. There was a tendency to stabilize going open end down, but it was not a sure thing with a straight tube. We figured a tube with a thickened front and a slight ballistic shape of Copper or Titanium launched from a 12 gauge might fly flatter and loose less velocity than traditional Foster or Benneke slugs and act as something of a "cookie cutter" on flesh. One of the things driving this was that I had one dummy round of the PMC .357 magnum ring foil given to me by PMC at a Shot Show. There was also some press about the 9x19mm version which was apparently used by some federal agents in the Waco Tx Branch Davidian event on the first day though identified by some press as Geco BAT ammo.
Neat time.
-kBob
Dr Fackler was very interested in protecting our right to keep and bear arms......now matter who's ballistics theories proved "more better"
He was interested in Ring Foil projectiles as he thought they had to potential to leave clearly defined permanent wound channels. One issue he ran into on the slug project was the patent on the design was then still active. About the only thing we did was think about it and take some short sections of copper tubing and drop them from three stories ( outside my office on the breeze way) to see if a straight tube might self stabilize. There was a tendency to stabilize going open end down, but it was not a sure thing with a straight tube. We figured a tube with a thickened front and a slight ballistic shape of Copper or Titanium launched from a 12 gauge might fly flatter and loose less velocity than traditional Foster or Benneke slugs and act as something of a "cookie cutter" on flesh. One of the things driving this was that I had one dummy round of the PMC .357 magnum ring foil given to me by PMC at a Shot Show. There was also some press about the 9x19mm version which was apparently used by some federal agents in the Waco Tx Branch Davidian event on the first day though identified by some press as Geco BAT ammo.
Neat time.
-kBob